shorter BOR: “Yeah they were slaves, but they were the best happy fat slaves.”
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"Slaves were well fed"… rumor has it 'Dead slaves built no houses’
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“Slaves that worked there were well fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government, which stopped hiring slave labor in 1802. However, the feds did not forbid subcontractors from using slave labor,”
But one particular slave, Philip Reid, achieved some renown as an individual. He was a slave laborer for Clark Mills, who was hired to cast the Statue of Freedom, the Capitol’s crowning feature. The government paid Reid $1.25 a day for his work.
The Statue of Freedom went up in 1863.
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He’s just a falafel fluffer
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from quora
The point is not how they were treated. The point is that they were enslaved.
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My money is on him thinking more along the lines of “sucking the gov’t teat and getting fat while being so lazy they totally screwed up drywalling the corners in the main office.”
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The first jazz improv in the field of architecture: the Oval Office!
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Standard white southern apologia for slavery taught to generations of white kids: most masters treated their slaves well. That made the abolitionists wrong and mean.
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“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.”
Abraham Lincoln
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Exactly. Slaves were well fed, because otherwise they could not be put to hard labor for no wages, harder than any white man would willingly work, for any salary.
After all, would a farmer starve his work-horse?
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Some white indentured servants might have worked on the White House, so racism doesn’t exist. You can trust Bill O’Reilly, he’s a historian!
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Wow, they’re not even trying to hide it any more. “Yes, they were singing work songs and dancing!” Bill O’Reilly is really one of the more loathsome people on FOX, and that’s saying plenty. Could he really be that dim? I’m going to go with “bigoted old white man” for $200, Alex. Also, too, I found some of Bill-O’s home movies.
Blazing Saddles-“Why don’t you sing one of those old work songs?”
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Astonishingly, it’s a fairly common theme among slave apologists. This children’s book came out early this year:
There was considerable outrage about the book and Scholastic pulled it. Why? It depicts a slave and his daughter baking a cake for their beloved master, General Washington. That would have been a bit offensive but the author made a bad story worse: she chose actual historical figures for her patriotic homily. The events in the book couldn’t possibly have happened. Hercules and Delia (his daughter) were slaves. Delia was not a house slave and wouldn’t have been permitted access to the kitchen. Hercules was a chef, not a baker. Although Hercules was valued for his services, neither he nor his daughter were treated like family. Ultimately, he managed to escape. His daughter did not. He never saw her again.
Look at the “reviews” on Amazon. Page after page…"Censorship! (No) “It’s history! (No).” All the crap O’R spews is well versed in these apologists little noggins. It’s revolting. This is at least partly the result of the Texas Miseducation swine choosing history books for all the schools in the country.
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Yup, with a big brain and a loofah to boot.
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Just blow it out your ass O’Reilly!
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I think back on when Bill had to scramble, in Levittown, while his poor parents struggled to keep him fed, clothed. Later young Bill secured a place in an Ivy League college where he proved himself to be “educated well beyond his intelligence.” Curiously, his alma maters are none to quick to trumpet him as “one of their own.” Probably an accounting error.
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After its arrival at the Capitol an Italian sculptor, according to Mills’ son Fisk, was hired to assemble it. However, when the time came to separate the sections, the Italian sculptor refused to help unless given a pay raise. Fortunately, Philip Reid figured out that using a pulley and tackle to pull up on the lifting ring at the top of the model would reveal the joints between the sections. The statue was successfully separated into its five sections and transported to Mills’ Foundry.
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Even steven.
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